Public Forum 09/01/2026 to 10/31/2026
The 2026-27 season opens with the infrastructure behind the AI boom. Pro argues the buildout is outrunning the grid, water supplies and local consent, and a national pause is the only way to catch up; Con argues a moratorium would hand the AI race to rivals and knock the legs out from under an economy that AI investment is carrying. This analysis builds on Katheryne Dwyer’s DebateTrack topic lecture.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 06/01/2026 to 06/30/2026
The 2026 Nationals topic asks whether force is justified, which makes it a moral debate rather than a policy one. Pro defends the moral permissibility of forcible regime change; Con attacks both the principle and the record of past attempts.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Regime Change by Force, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 04/01/2026 to 04/30/2026
April 2026 asked who should hold the war power. Pro defends restoring Congress as the gatekeeper for deployments; Con defends the President’s speed and flexibility in real emergencies.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for War Powers, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 03/01/2026 to 03/31/2026
March 2026 took on housing affordability. Pro blames institutional investors for pricing out first-time buyers; Con answers that corporate landlords are a symptom of undersupply rather than its cause.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Corporate Home Ownership, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 02/01/2026 to 02/28/2026
February 2026 asked whether Washington should override the state-by-state patchwork that followed legalization. Pro wants uniform consumer protection for a fast-growing industry; Con defends federalism and warns that a federal floor becomes a federal ceiling.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Sports Betting Regulation, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 01/01/2026 to 01/31/2026
January 2026 gave debaters an unusual agent, Beijing itself. Pro indicts the environmental and geopolitical costs of China’s global extraction; Con defends the development bargain it funds, including the minerals the clean-energy transition needs.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for China's Resource Extraction, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 11/01/2025 to 12/31/2025
The Nov/Dec 2025 topic revived the crypto wars. Pro says end-to-end encryption gives criminals a warrant-proof space no free society should tolerate; Con says no backdoor exists that only the good guys can use.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Encryption Backdoors, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 09/01/2025 to 10/31/2025
The 2025-26 season opened by relitigating Brexit with hindsight. Pro argues the experiment failed on its own promises; Con argues rejoining would reopen a settled wound on worse terms than Britain had when it left.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for UK Rejoining the EU, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 06/01/2025 to 06/30/2025
The 2025 Nationals topic weighed the modern presidency’s favorite tool. Pro defends executive orders as how anything gets done in a gridlocked system; Con sees government by pen as democratic erosion with a whiplash problem.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Presidential Executive Orders, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 04/01/2025 to 04/30/2025
April 2025 asked whether the clean-energy future runs on nuclear. Pro wants firm, carbon-free baseload power at scale; Con says nuclear’s costs and timelines make it a detour that starves faster options.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Domestic Nuclear Energy, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 03/01/2025 to 03/31/2025
March 2025 brought the AI debate into the classroom. Pro sees a personal tutor for every student; Con sees cognitive offloading, cheating at scale, and a generation that outsources its thinking.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Generative AI in Education, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 02/01/2025 to 02/28/2025
February 2025 asked whether America should join the court it helped design and then declined to join. Pro argues staying out corrodes the rules-based order the U.S. claims to lead; Con warns of politicized prosecution and lost sovereignty.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Rome Statute & the ICC, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 01/01/2025 to 01/31/2025
January 2025 focused on the world’s most functional unrecognized state. Pro says three decades of de facto statehood have earned recognition; Con fears unraveling the AU’s border consensus across a fragile continent.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Somaliland Recognition, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 11/01/2024 to 12/31/2024
Nov/Dec 2024 flipped the usual script by putting reduced support on the Pro side. The debate became a test of deterrence itself: does arming Taiwan prevent war or provoke it?
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Taiwan Military Support, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 09/01/2024 to 10/31/2024
The 2024-25 opener offered a technocratic middle path in the immigration fight. Pro sells the "smart border" of towers, sensors and drones instead of walls; Con answers that surveillance pushes crossings onto deadlier routes and builds a system that never stays at the border.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Southern Border Surveillance, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 06/01/2024 to 06/30/2024
The 2024 Nationals topic revisited the biggest trade deal never signed. Pro sees a democratic answer to Chinese economic power; Con remembers why TTIP died over regulatory sovereignty, agriculture and public backlash.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for US-EU Trade Agreement, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 04/01/2024 to 04/30/2024
April 2024 went after the P5 directly. Pro says the veto-holding permanent five freeze the power map of 1945 over a 2024 world; Con says permanence is the price of keeping great powers inside the system at all.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for UN Security Council Reform, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 03/01/2024 to 03/31/2024
March 2024 caught college sports mid-upheaval. After NIL broke open amateurism, Pro argued for finishing the job with employee status; Con warned that wages for football would mean the end of everything else.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Student-Athletes as Employees, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 02/01/2024 to 02/29/2024
February 2024 asked for the bluntest tool in environmental policy. Pro defends a national ban as the only response on the scale of the plastic crisis; Con points to substitutes with worse footprints and a healthcare exemption problem Pro can’t wish away.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Single-Use Plastics Ban, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 01/01/2024 to 01/31/2024
January 2024 targeted the twenty-six words that built the internet. Pro says platform immunity created an amplification machine with no accountability; Con says repeal hands the internet to whoever can afford the most lawyers.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Section 230 Repeal, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 11/01/2023 to 12/31/2023
Nov/Dec 2023 debated the maximal version of forgiveness, all of it. Pro frames a generational rescue from a predatory system; Con sees a trillion-dollar regressive transfer that does nothing about tuition inflation.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Student Loan Forgiveness, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 09/01/2023 to 10/31/2023
The 2023-24 opener went north, where melting ice is opening shipping lanes and resources that Russia has spent a decade militarizing. Pro says presence deters; Con says militarizing the last low-tension frontier creates the conflict it fears.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Arctic Military Presence, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 06/01/2023 to 06/30/2023
The 2023 Nationals topic asked whether changing the ballot changes the politics. Pro promises majority winners and calmer campaigns; Con answers with ballot exhaustion, complexity, and evidence that the reform delivers less than it promises.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Ranked-Choice Voting, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 04/01/2023 to 04/30/2023
April 2023 took on the technology that ends anonymity. Pro argues faces and fingerprints are passwords you can never reset, so collection itself has to stop; Con defends the security and convenience infrastructure a total ban would tear out.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Biometric Data Ban, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 03/01/2023 to 03/31/2023
March 2023 sent PF into space policy with an unusual agent. Pro wants India inside the American-led lunar framework; Con defends strategic autonomy and warns that the Accords dress up resource claims the Outer Space Treaty forbids.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for India & the Artemis Accords, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 02/01/2023 to 02/28/2023
February 2023 put labor law on trial with the sides reversed. Pro attacks right-to-work, arguing these laws exist to defund unions and that wages fall with union density; Con defends worker choice and the investment these states attract.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Right-to-Work Laws, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 01/01/2023 to 01/31/2023
January 2023 asked whether more American diplomacy helps or hurts the region’s civil wars. Pro says only the U.S. can convene the talks that end them; Con says American involvement is part of why several of them keep burning.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for West Asia Diplomacy, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 11/01/2022 to 12/31/2022
Nov/Dec 2022 audited the doctrine that replaced the War on Terror. Pro credits competition with waking Washington up to real threats; Con indicts a frame that makes every issue zero-sum and every rival an enemy.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Great Power Competition, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 09/01/2022 to 10/31/2022
The 2022-23 opener asked whether America should finally build bullet trains. Pro leans on jobs, climate and connectivity; Con attacks cost overruns, ridership math, and the opportunity cost compared with better transit.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for High-Speed Rail, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 06/01/2022 to 06/30/2022
The 2022 Nationals topic wrapped economics inside geopolitics. Pro sees a trade deal that secures the semiconductor lifeline and signals commitment; Con sees the most provocative economic step available short of recognition.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for US-Taiwan Trade Agreement, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub Public Forum 04/01/2022 to 04/30/2022
April 2022 asked whether the world’s most famous pacifist clause still fits Japan’s neighborhood. Pro argues for constitutional honesty and real deterrence; Con says the clause is the region’s last stabilizer and revising it would blow that up.
Sample cases are a member resource
Read the cases that win rounds. Full varsity Aff and Neg cases for Japan’s Article 9, with the blocks and frontlines behind them, written by CDA's national circuit coaches.
What members get
Semi-private coaching
Two-to-one with a championship coach, every week of the topic cycle.
Full block files & sample cases
Aff, Neg, frontlines and answers, all written before the tournament starts.
National circuit tournaments
You travel with a team, a coach and prep that is already done.
TOC qualification support
Bid-tournament strategy mapped to your schedule and your budget.
Alumni mentorship
Former NDC debaters now at top programs, in your corner all season.
Taking you to the travel team in 10s
Stay on this page Open topic hub 